Breaking the rules

Gus makes stacks of things ALL over the house. He stacks toys, blocks, food, bits of recycling, pillows, books--and usually in mixed-media configurations. We occasionally photograph these, in the event that he is a famous artist some day, but I'm sharing this one because it's a particularly funny thing that says a lot about who Gus is. These are Duplos, and you'll notice they are stacked, but not locked together. He knows how they work, but WILL NOT use them that way. Instead, he makes these incredibly delicately balanced and Suessian stacks of Duplos (unlocking them if Daddy has been playing with them and didn't take them apart)--often mixing them with other objects. Here, he's made two, side by side. Also, he gets very annoyed when one cleans up these little installations all over the house, we often walk around them and through them.